I think Pl/I was "free" before IBM unbundled software. I started in 1975 and we had the F level and Optimizing compiler. Most of our senior programmers wrote in Assembler but my first year was all PL/I, Assembler came later. We never used COBOL but had RPG and Mark IV. A couple of years later we also had Software AG Adabas and Natural.
On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 12:32 PM Bob Bridges <[email protected]> wrote: > License fee? I always assumed PL/I sort of came with the OS. I didn't > think it'd be any extra. > > --- > Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 > > /* You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3. -Paul F > Crickmore, test pilot */ > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf > Of CM Poncelet > Sent: Friday, March 25, 2022 20:59 > > AFAIK The reason PL/I was not 'more popular' was its high license fee. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
